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3/26/2002
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KCS to open 41st specialized transloading center
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Kansas City Southern plans April 1 to open a new 40-acre TransLoad Center (TLC) in Kansas City, Mo., on the site of a former GST Steel plant.
The TLC includes 10 tracks designed to hold more than 300 rail cars; KCS plans to use six tracks for transloading and four tracks to hold forward-storage or storage-in-transit loads. The facility, which is designed to serve customers who don't have a siding or who prefer truckload or small-lot shipments, also includes a rail and truck scale, and 10- and 20-ton cranes.
KCS operates 40 TLCs across its system, each offering customers a single-bill, door-to-door service package — including rail cars, warehousing and trucking services — for commodities such as potash, rock, food products, non-hazardous liquids, aluminum nitrate, petroleum oil, pipe and steel.
For the Kansas City TLC, Pavlich Inc. plans to transload dry-bulk products needing a conveyor; Liquid Transport would transload dry and liquid bulk products via pneumatic transfer and GST Steel would handle switching.
The TLC includes 10 tracks designed to hold more than 300 rail cars; KCS plans to use six tracks for transloading and four tracks to hold forward-storage or storage-in-transit loads. The facility, which is designed to serve customers who don't have a siding or who prefer truckload or small-lot shipments, also includes a rail and truck scale, and 10- and 20-ton cranes.
KCS operates 40 TLCs across its system, each offering customers a single-bill, door-to-door service package — including rail cars, warehousing and trucking services — for commodities such as potash, rock, food products, non-hazardous liquids, aluminum nitrate, petroleum oil, pipe and steel.
For the Kansas City TLC, Pavlich Inc. plans to transload dry-bulk products needing a conveyor; Liquid Transport would transload dry and liquid bulk products via pneumatic transfer and GST Steel would handle switching.
